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Okay this is worse than I thought. A large # of academic press books (incld. a textbook I use in class) have been moved to a platform called Ebook Central. It's like Kindle paired w/ AI. No footnotes. No page #s No facsimile PDFs are available. I just wrote a lengthy complaint to my library. Sigh.

I spoke to palumboliu.bsky.social on the Speaking out of Place podcast about Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing. This clip discusses the multiple meanings of the book's title. Check out the full interview here: pca.st/episode/94d7...

A U.S. Volunteer Nurse in Gaza on Mass Starvation, Targeted Gunshot Wounds, and Israel Confiscating Baby Formula Elidalis Burgos, a critical care nurse from the U.S. who has been volunteering at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, discusses what she has witnessed in Gaza over the past four weeks.

🎥 NEW from Drop Site News: Drop Site’s Middle East editor Sharif Abdel Kouddous speaks with Elidalis Burgos, a critical care nurse from the U.S. who has been volunteering at Nasser hospital for the past four weeks in the intensive care unit and emergency dept

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2. Today, the CHA has 19,000 fewer homes than it did before the Plan, and a new report we've published at @impactforequity.bsky.social finds that at the current pace of building, the CHA won't be able to redevelop all the vacant land created by public housing demolitions for *another* 30-40 years.

1. Twenty-five years ago, the Chicago Housing Authority launched the Plan for Transformation, a 10-year strategy to demolish, rebuild, or rehabilitate 25,000 public housing apartments across the city.

I spoke to David Palumbo-Liu on the Speaking out of Place podcast about Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing. Check out the interview here: pca.st/episode/94d7...

We talk about early anti-Black attacks in LA housing and of the history of Sun Village, that started on land from a socialist community, and grew into an all-Black town. Given today’s brutal ICE assaults and the policing of public and private space, this episode is of special importance.

Civilian Enforcers Boston Univ. School of Law Research Paper No. 5365045 51 Pages Posted: 24 Jul 2025 Last revised: 24 Jul 2025 Karen Pita Loor Boston University - School of Law Date Written: January 02, 2025 Abstract This Article analyzes the largely unexplored phenomenon of militant civilians engaged in efforts to police and silence activism that challenges entrenched American power systems and economic distributions placing whites atop the social hierarchy in the United States. I argue that this civilian enforcement is an unregulated vessel for state-sponsored violence meant to silence the contestation of the existing racial hierarchy. While scholars, myself included, have written about the many ways police confront and silence racial justice activists on the streets at least since the beginning of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, the role law enforcement plays in silencing racial justice movements is only part a larger state-sponsored effort to preserve existing racial hierarchies. Supplementing violent policing from law enforcement actors, militant right-wing civilians descend on public streets ready to battle BLM activists. These mostly white, often armed, civilians are force multipliers of state efforts to suppress BLM voices, whose demands for a reevaluation of established distributions of power and wealth ignite fear and resentment among certain whites. Yet, vigilantes' efforts evade constitutional examination because of their nature as non-state actors. However, police routinely tolerate or even collaborate with these civilian vigilantes, while simultaneously focusing violent enforcement efforts on BLM protesters. I argue that this pattern of disparate police enforcement, where racial justice activists are violently policed while civilian enforcers evade punishment, effectively transforms civilian vigilantes into unregulated state-sponsored violence workers. This is reminiscent of the antebellum South, where the state delegated legal authority to …

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Its always disappointing when someone who does decent work in their area is a disgusting genocide denier (screenshotting for when they inevitably block me)

NYT reporters trying to be careerist access journalists and ending up becoming just state propaganda mouthpieces example number 234,532,432.

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Help the Elderly Al-Areers Find Shelter I am the mother of the poet and teacher Dr. Refaat Alareer. I write to you with a heart wrenched by pain.

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The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

Seven Palestinians die of starvation in Gaza as Israel kills 38 aid seekers A 17-year-old was among seven people who starved to death in Gaza as Israeli forces shot dead dozens more aid seekers.

A 17-year-old was among seven people who starved to death in Gaza as Israeli forces shot dead dozens more aid seekers.

In Gaza, we’ve resorted to drinking salty water just to keep ourselves from fainting We drink salt and water to stay standing, to keep ourselves from going dizzy and collapsing. This is what we’ve come to in Gaza, where most people will go without food for three days at a time.

We drink salt and water to stay standing, to keep ourselves from going dizzy and collapsing. This is what we've come to in Gaza, where most people will go without food for three days at a time.

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#Palestine #Israel

Terence Tao has written a thread about the damage being caused by the grant freezes at UCLA.

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once again Michigan’s EM law foretold this—the state took over the country’s largest black-majority city and sold it for parts!

Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says Exclusive: UN special rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri says denial of food is war crime and constitutes ‘a situation of genocide’

The deliberate starvation of Gaza was predicted 18 months ago by the top UN expert on the right to food. This is not unexpected, our political leaders knew this what they were backing
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You can not walk out of your front door anymore without being under surveillance. Your neighbors are working for the government now without their knowledge or consent.

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

ICYMI: Amazon still doing Amazon things

The company is not only reintroducing new versions of old features that allow police to access footage from Ring users

Amazon is introducing a new Ring feature that will allow police to request *livestream* access to our home security devices.

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NEW FROM @reuters.com: Top U.S. law firms have sharply scaled back their efforts to challenge the federal government in court, especially on behalf of pro bono clients, in the face of threats from President Trump.

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BREAKING: At least 51 Palestinians have been killed, including 27 aid seekers, in Israeli attacks across Gaza today.

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Interior Order Chokes Off Permits for Solar and Wind on Federal Lands The department creates a seemingly impossible new permitting criteria for renewable energy.

The Interior Department released a new order Friday saying it may no longer issue any permits to a solar or wind project on federal lands unless the agency believes it will generate as much energy per acre as a coal, gas or or nuclear energy. via @jael.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court knocked down one of the two pillars of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 in the Shelby County case. It has now gone out of its way to consider whether it should knock down the other, by rescheduling arguments in a case it could have resolved in June under existing precedent.

Cornell Close to White House Settlement of Up to $100 Million The White House is eyeing a settlement of as much as $100 million in negotiations with Cornell University about an agreement that would reinstate hundreds of millions of dollars in frozen federal rese...

First they came for Columbia. The dominos of extortion continue to line up… #HigherEd

Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It’s Worse Than Imagined. Try as it might, the government cannot cover up the horrors with bureaucratic legalese.

The Trump administration has quietly released the first stage of its plan to revoke birthright citizenship from the children of immigrants. It uses dry legalese to conceal the barbaric reality of ICE agents in maternity wards and deportation flights for babies. slate.com/news-and-pol...

W.E.B. Du Bois wrote a report for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) about Lowndes County, Alabama. The BLS decided not to publish it.

Du Bois said he was told the reason was his report "touched on political matters." When he asked for the return of his manuscript, he was told it was destroyed.

Public pressure works. After a major backlash over secret ICE contracts, Avelo Airlines is abandoning all West Coast routes.

A grassroots campaign in Burbank forced their retreat—and the movement is spreading. Over 100 protesters just rallied near BWI to expose Avelo’s role in ICE deportations. 🧵 👇